"If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Isaac Hayes

#Rose Quotes #Thorns Quotes #Bears Quotes

“What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.”
“God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself.”
“...and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.”
“One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.”
“Find out where the ball is, get there; hit it.”

Source : Explaining his tactics as a batsman. Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
“Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.”
“Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.”

Source : "Letters of Note: Volume 2: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience". Book by Shaun Usher (p.190), 2016.
“Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.”

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